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Monodisperse monocomponent fuel droplet heating and evaporation

Heating and evaporation of monocomponent droplets is modelled based on the analytical solution to the transient heat conduction partial differential equation (PDE) inside droplets. This eliminates the need for discretisation of the PDE when implementing the model into CFD codes. The interaction between droplets is taken into account based on the experimentally determined corrections to Nusselt and Sherwood numbers. Recirculation inside droplets is accounted for by the effective thermal conductivity model. The results are compared with the monodisperse spray experiment in an ambient air of fixed temperature and atmospheric pressure for acetone, ethanol, 3-pentanone, n-heptane, n-decane and n-dodecane droplets.